Wilder Interview

I really enjoyed reading the interview with Billy Wilder. Although I could not relate to everything he said as I have not seen all his movies, like "The Apartment" and "The Emperor's Waltz," I have seen quite a few of his movies. I especially loved hearing him talk about Audrey Hepburn as she is one of my favorite actresses of all time. He describes how she had a one of a kind "X" factor, and he also attributes this "X" factor to Marilyn Monroe, and I agree completely. I fall in love with Audrey Hepburn when I watch her unlike any actress I watch in the movies today, and I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe in a very similar way when I watched "Some Like It Hot." I also thought it was interesting how Wilder preferred black and white over color, and even when almost everyone else was using color still used black and white for "Some Like It Hot." I found the idea of timing jokes also very interesting. I found "Some Like It Hot" to be such a funny movie, and I especially enjoyed the scene with the maracas, in which we find out "Daphne" is engaged, so I thought it was really cool that one of the reasons I found it so entertaining was because it was timed, and that this timing was inspired by the Marx brothers. Finally, I thought the personal anecdotes were hilarious, especially the one about how he couldn't pee and the one about calling six girls and pissing off his screen writer after too many martinis.